CIRCA 1770

Details

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CIRCULAR WINE-COOLER
CIRCA 1770
With a gadrooned upper edge above cut-cornered panelled sides with applied sunflower paterae and with a later metal liner, the base with a band of fluting above tapering foliate-carved and fluted legs with beaded and foliate feet on brass castors
20 ½ in. (52 cm.) high; 14 in. (36 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1991, lot 119

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Lot Essay

A closely related though slightly more elaborate wine-cooler was sold anonymously '50 Years of Collecting: The Decorative Arts of Georgian England', Christie's, London, 14 May 2003, lot 38 (£100,450 including premium). The richly carved decoration of that example indicates the hand of a specialist carver such as Sefferin Alken (d.1783) of Golden Square, London, and his son Samuel Alken, author of a pattern book of arabesque antique foliage, while the present wine-cooler is perhaps a standard model that could be embellished to order. The former is illustrated in C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 252 and pp. 246 - 247, colour plates 24a and 24b .

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